If the government is serious about cracking down on ‘false reports’ on the internet, a good place to start would be XinhuaNet.

China clear of new bird flu cases for 44 days

BEIJING, April 10 (Xinhua)– China has recorded no new cases of bird flu in the last 44 days, national chief veterinary officer Jia Youling said Monday.

Jia, also director of the Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Bureau under the Ministry of Agriculture, said the country was succeeding in efforts to prevent and contain the disease since the eradication of the most recent cases.

A large-scale immunization campaign had lowered the possibility of new outbreaks across much of the country, he said.

But he added that China still faced the threat of bird flu as the spread of the disease was accelerating around the world, especially with the advance of the northern spring and warmer weather encouraging bird migration.

Shanghai recorded its first human bird-flu fatality on 21 March, with the passing of a female migrant worker who contracted the H5N1 virus reportedly after handling live birds at a market on 8 March.

Efforts to nail down the exact population of Shanghai are close to impossible as unregistered migrant workers don’t show up in official statistics. It seems they don’t show up in bird flu statistics either.

Also if China is going to crack down on ‘unclean’ content on the internet, a good place to start would be the China Daily.

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